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Multi-material 3D Printing of Soft, Multifunctional Matter

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New fabrication methods that enable the rapid, digital design of soft material composites with tailored mechanical, electrical, and physicochemical properties are required for designing the next generation of soft robots and robotic materials. We specialize in ink-based printing methods like direct-ink writing (DIW) and embedded 3D printing (EMB3DP) for designing soft, multifunctional materials, as they enable a far broader set of materials to be patterned than other printing methods. We use these methods to pattern elastomeric, conductive, catalytic, hydrogel-based, stimuli-responsive, and structural materials.

Building off our experience in DIW and EMB3D printing, we are actively developing new hybrid printing strategies to rapidly pattern hierarchically structured soft matter composites. 

designing 3D printed soft, multifunctional materials. 

 

People 

Ryan Truby
EunBi Oh
Alexander Kane
Alex Evenchik
Pranav Kaarthik
Simona Fine
Anjali Shah
Francesco Sanchez

 

Related Publications

R. L. Truby, M. Wehner, D. M. Grosskopf, D. M. Vogt, S. G. M. Uzel, R. J. Wood, and J. A. Lewis, Soft Somatosensitive Actuators via Embedded 3D Printing, Advanced Materials, February/ 2018 Google Scholar

M. A. Skylar-Scott, S. G. M. Uzel, L. Nam, J. Ahrens, R. L. Truby, S. Damaraju, and J. A. Lewis, Biomanufacturing of Organ-Specific Tissues with High Cellular Density and Embedded Vascular Channels, Science Advances,, no. 9, pp. 2459, September/ 2019 Google Scholar

A. K. Grosskopf, R. L. Truby, H. Kim, A. Perazzo, J. A. Lewis, and H. A. Stone, Viscoplastic Matrix Materials for Embedded 3D Printing, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, pp. 23353–23361, October/ 2018 Google Scholar

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